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Researcher Vatsal Gupta says LLM-written access policies can compile yet omit constraints, deny rules, or context, expanding permissions. He recommends validation, behavioral testing, and explicit deny-by-default controls.
In an interview, Dr. Priyanka Sunder discusses GRC as a continuous resilience effort, Security by Design, cloud security priorities, and practical ways to strengthen organizational security culture.
A walkthrough of local and remote LSASS credential dumping covers tools, dump parsing, and detection. It also outlines defenses including Credential Guard, LSASS Protected Process Light, ASR rules, and network monitoring.
A sponsored guide summarizes Gartner’s seven questions for evaluating AI SOC agents, emphasizing measurable outcomes, vendor viability and costs, analyst augmentation, autonomy guardrails, integration, transparency, and data protection.
A lab walkthrough shows how misconfigured Active Directory DACLs can enable password resets, Domain Admin group changes, and DCSync, then recommends ACL restoration, auditing, least privilege, and monitoring.
A lab walkthrough uses BloodyAD and Impacket to demonstrate Active Directory enumeration, privilege escalation, credential attacks and persistence, then outlines monitoring and hardening measures for the misconfigurations exploited.
Cofense describes Cloudflare Workers used for AiTM credential phishing and TryCloudflare Tunnels for malware delivery. A reported chain uses URL shortcuts, WebDAV, WSF and batch scripts to install Xeno RAT or XWorm RAT; Cloudflare uses behavioral detection, CAPTCHA and,
An Impacket tutorial demonstrates resetting or changing Active Directory passwords through ForceChangePassword, hash/AES/TGT authentication, and SMB-SAMR, RPC-SAMR, LDAP, and kpasswd. It also covers Windows event detection and AD defenses.
An overview of web shells as persistent backdoors on compromised servers, covering common entry methods, capabilities and risks, plus ways to detect, remove and prevent them.
The article explains how image and audio prompt-injection techniques can bypass text-focused safeguards, citing research on cross-model transfer and high success rates in tests, including over-the-air audio attacks.
CloudSEK says a 48-hour scan found over 100 exposed credential sets and more than 80 publicly accessible MLOps deployments, warning that attackers could access AI assets or tamper with training pipelines.
PwC threat intelligence leader Allison Wikoff says AI is accelerating reconnaissance, phishing and malware development, while fully autonomous attacks remain early-stage. She urges organizations to prioritize identity protection and defenses around critical assets.
A technical walkthrough demonstrates NTLM hash-based lateral movement across Windows Active Directory services using tools including NetExec, Impacket, Mimikatz and Rubeus, and outlines mitigations such as Credential Guard and restricting NTLM.
A Check Point executive says Telegram removed over 43 million channels and groups in 2025, but criminal actors quickly returned using gated access, backup channels and hybrid communications; he urges continuous, contextual monitoring.
The article describes how hybrid AD and Entra ID environments, high user turnover and decentralized IT can leave higher-education institutions with orphaned accounts and excess privileges. It recommends centralized, automated identity governance and auditing.
ClickFix lures users with fake verification or tech-support prompts and tricks them into running commands themselves. Huntress says the technique accounted for over half of malware loader activity in its 2026 Cyber Threat Report.
The article explains how OpenClaw agents’ inherited permissions, gateway exposure and extensions can expand security risks, and recommends visibility into agent use, deployment controls and monitoring for malicious activity.
A JPCERT/CC visit to Azerbaijan profiled three CSIRTs, a national cybersecurity training center, and an industry association, highlighting incident response, information sharing, workforce development, and international cooperation.
In an interview, Dr. Sheeba Armoogum discusses social engineering, transparent AI-based defense, digital-legacy planning and ways organizations can support women in advanced cybersecurity research.
Hackmanac CEO Sofia Scozzari argues that organizations should treat cybersecurity as a business risk, embed security by design, share threat information, and account for human factors and operational constraints.
Huntress’s _declassified episode describes organized scam centers, their roles and revenue, examples of phone and tech-support scams, and the use of AI-generated identities and deepfakes. It also highlights tools that waste scammers’ time.
A hands-on guide to Impacket secretsdump covers remote credential extraction with DCSync and VSS, offline registry-hive parsing, authentication options, and flags for filtering and saving output.
A penetration-testing walkthrough shows how weak SQL credentials, IMPERSONATE permissions, or linked servers can lead to SQL Server sysadmin access, OS command execution, and file uploads, and outlines defenses.
A practical guide to installing BloodHound CE, collecting Active Directory data with several tools, and analyzing relationships and permissions to identify privilege-escalation paths in the IGNITE.LOCAL example environment.
